How can I make a glowing or shiny gold material similar to these pictures?
Here is setup that works for both Eevee and Cycles and seems not too far from what you show: Put a Point light into your object, and for your material use a mix between Diffuse, Emission and Translucent node, with an Attibute node as factor that uses the Color Vertex Paint &gt; Dirty Vertex Group in order to keep some parts more opaque: